Kevin Bampton

Kevin Bampton is the current Chief Executive Officer of the British Occupational Hygiene Society.^[1] He was formerly Head of the Law School's at the University of Derby and De Montfort University. He is a qualified lawyer and Professor of Law.

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Kevin was born in July, 1967 in Kenya to a British father and an Indian mother from Gujarat. He attended the University of Birmingham from 1985 to 1988 and obtained an LLB in Law. His first role was as a litigation assistant in financial services in Holborn in London. He then moved to the British Foreign Office as a legal education advisor for the British Council.^[2] Following this he worked for the Political Affairs Department of the United Nations in Malawi during the 1994 elections after the end of the Hastings Banda government. After completing this he returned to the Foreign Office and worked in Poland, Botswana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and took part in a judicial exchange to France. He then began his transition into academia, becoming a research fellow within the department of government at Leeds University, and then in 1996, be he became a lecturer in law at the University of Derby teaching on the University's single Law Course within the school of business, becoming head of law subjects in 2003. He taught Public Law as well as Medical Law and International Law. Much of his research, rather than being concentrated around the publication of academic articles, was around drafting and writing legislation and of various constitutions.

Alongside his teaching he took part in various external projects for the European Commission, The World Bank as well as the University of Nottingham advising on primary care within prison education. He served as a strategic advisor for the Police Federation of England and Wales and as an independent scrutineer for the Crown Prosecution Service, and advising various security and intelligence agencies. In 2007 he became Head of the School of Law and Criminology and in 2015 was made Professor of Law and founded the International Policing and Justice Institute at the University. In this he worked on the training of the Police in Malaysia, Qatar and Dubai and gave lectures in Bangladesh and undertook partnership visits to India on behalf of the University. Internationally he served as an advisor to the judiciary of Nigeria and visited Switzerland and New York for conferences surrounding the development and implementation of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Continuing his teaching work, he served as programme leader on the MSc in Computer Crime and delivered external courses on Data Protection.

In 2017 Kevin moved to become Head of the Law School, and Professor of Public Law, at De Montfort University.^[3] In this role he trained officers from Border Force agency in counter-terrorism as well as delivering lectures in Cyber Crime on the criminal liability of robots to industry professionals.

In 2020 he moved from academia to become the Chief Executive of the British Occupational Hygiene Society and to work with industry and the public sector through the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

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